a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
<noun.artifact> he knocked on the door he slammed the door as he left
the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
<noun.artifact> he stuck his head in the doorway
anything providing a means of access (or escape)
<noun.attribute> we closed the door to Haitian immigrants education is the door to success
a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
<noun.artifact> the office next door they live two doors up the street from us
a room that is entered via a door
<noun.artifact> his office is the third door down the hall on the left
Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr. dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. {Foreign}.] 1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham.
2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. --Spenser.
3. Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. --John x. 9.
4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Martin's office is now the second door in the street. --Arbuthnot.
{Blank door}, {Blind door}, etc. (Arch.) See under {Blank}, {Blind}, etc.
{In doors}, or {Within doors}, within the house.
{Next door to}, near to; bordering on.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. --L'Estrange.
{Out of doors}, or {Without doors}, and, [colloquially], {Out doors}, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. --Locke.
{To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door}, to charge one with a fault; to blame for.
{To lie at one's door}, to be imputable or chargeable to.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. --Dryden.
Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.
State regulators are said to be investigating a doctor who speeded up delivery of a baby, plopped the infant into a Christmas stocking and dashed to a TV studio next door to display her as the county's first newborn of the '90s.
Mr. Windfeldt recalls that most vacuum cleaners were sold door to door when he entered the business 26 years ago.
Mr. Windfeldt recalls that most vacuum cleaners were sold door to door when he entered the business 26 years ago.
The columnist, loaded with all this optional equipment, tried again to get his foot in Mr. McCurry's door: wouldn't he concede the inevitable? Okay, relented the auto veteran.
"She went to the back door, looked out and wanted to know if that was all of our yard and if that was our garage, which the Secret Service men were all in," Mrs. Watson said.
They knock on the door and say: 'The people are here from Sears.
First a brass choir proceeded from the main door of the church down the nave, through the roodscreen, to the altar, its solemn fanfare reechoing in the shadowy air.
She said released hostages have told her that guards hold guns to the heads of the captives every time there is a knock on the door.
One hijacker appeared in the door of the plane with a hand grenade in his upraised fist.
In 1985, Cheney voted for limits on "revolving door" job switches from the Pentagon to private military supply companies, and for legislation requiring the Pentagon to maintain records of contractors' proposed and negotiated cost and pricing data.
Parents are asked to work with their kids in completing the workbooks _ rehearsing what they should do if they lose their keys, or if someone knocks at the door.
Workers at the Alamo discovered graffiti that may have been left by an Alamo defender in 1836 on a door of the mission.
Doll said the ill-fated plane did not have a history of unusual cargo door problems, and that United recorded a total of 112 problems with forward and aft cargo doors in its 747s between March 1986 and February 1989.
When a front door and rear-hinged back door are opened, nothing obstructs people getting in and out.
When a front door and rear-hinged back door are opened, nothing obstructs people getting in and out.
But Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich. and the Senate Banking Committee chairman, said $4.61 billion in taxpayer costs could be saved if the Treasury borrowed the money directly rather than through a "side door mechanism" to keep if off the federal budget.
The victim's mother, Jeanne Quinn, said a couple holding a sign reading "Ritalin Killed Shaun, Not Rod" came to her door, asked for her and offered pamphlets on the dangers of Ritalin.
When the kid next door runs away from home, he's liable to get in trouble with his folks.
The third Baltic republic, Estonia, last month declared its intention to secede but set no date and left the door open for negotiations with the Kremlin.
"Eastern has consistently slammed every door in the pilots' face," said John Mazor, an ALPA spokesman.
United spokesman Sean McNamara in Sydney said engineers replaced a safety pin in the cargo door as a precaution in line with a company order to check all of the airline's aircraft.
Later, the door again was thrown open, and the great ape hopped out to meet his public.
Not only the police arrive to see what's up, but also (on press night, at any rate) David Calder, the RSC's new Shylock, from the theatre next door.
The camera turns to the door, and eyes staring through the peephole.
After the children were safe, police pounded on Lashbrook's apartment door and woke her up, police said.
But that proved unnecessary when the door was opened Friday morning, exposing the telescope's finely polished 94.5-inch eye to starlight for the first time.
One industry source said RJR's anger stemmed in part from the agency's lack of deference to RJR, whose array of consumer products is so vast that it has ad agencies beating down its door.
A steerer takes a buyer to an apartment, where the dealer accepts the buyer's money and pushes the drugs through an opening in the apartment door.
The Greggs said they heard the intruders on the other side of their locked bedroom door but managed to escape via a side door.
The Greggs said they heard the intruders on the other side of their locked bedroom door but managed to escape via a side door.